Calendar



mm n 11923. nmmm S. M. SPRAGENS CALENDAR Filed March' 1. 1922 PatentedDec. ll, 11923.

UNETE STAS nausea CALENDAR.

Application filed March 1, 1922. Serial No. 540,315.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN M. SrR-ie- ENS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCalendars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to calendars having suspension means and separatesheets or leaves for desired periods of time.

A considerable practice has sprung up in recent years in art calendars,mainly used for advertising purposes, in which there are six sheets orpages bearing a monthly calendar on each side and some sort of mountingwhereby each sheet as its use on one side is completed is preservedintact with the calendar, so as to be used on its other side. In thisway a monthly page calendar is provided with saving in bulk and inpaper, and a very high type of color printing is possible withoutprohibitive cost.

' The use of such calendars for advertising 7 purposes tends to destroytheir artistic merit, unless the advertisement of the donor appears insuch a way as not to break the continuity of the text of the calendar,or destroy the effect given by the artistic colored pictures.

It is the object of my invention herein, to provide a calendar of thedesired number of sheets formed in a thin pad, and to provide a supportfor the pad, that not only permits of a folding back out of sight ofused pages, but provides an excellent, entirely separate element inconnection with the pad support for printing the advertisement or nameof the donor of the calendar.

This object, as well as other incidental improvements to be noted. Iaccomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to behereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a calendar made according to myinvention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken through the calendar.

} The calendar pad, as shown, is formed of six leaves 1, although thenumber of leaves is not essential.

These leaves will each onepreferably serve as a monthly calendar and thefront leaf looking at one side of the calendar may be a cover, as shownin Figure 1, in which case I may provide seven leaves.

The essential point in the pad structure is that the leaves are securedtogether at their upper ends by means of a binding strip 2, in this casemetal. This metal strip embraces the upper edges of the leaves or pages,and also engages and holds the ends of a cord or cords 3.

A name or advertising card is provided, of the same width as the pad, asshown at 4, which card may have an aperture 5 for mounting the calendaron a hook or nail, or may have some other accepted means of mounting theentire device on a wall or elsewhere.

The card is equipped, preferably, with a metal binding 6, similar to thebinding of the pad, which binding also engages the cord or cords 3.

The length of the cord between the end of the binding 2 and the binding6 will be such as to permit the leaves of the calendar to be insertedthrough the space left between card and pad, and folded back, so as tobe preserved for use later on their hitherto unused sides.

The card will preferably have the donors name or advertisement printedthereon, on both sides, so that when the first six months have passed,the entire device can be turned about to expose the rear faces of theleaves.

This structure is much preferable over a mere mounting cord set in theupper edge of the pad, since it provides a place for a separateadvertisement, exposed, at all times that the calendar is used withoutdefacing the leaves, and thus permitting the leaves to be printed alikefor all users.

A cord also does not provide a rectangular space for folding back theleaves, as

does the device above described, but instead provides a triangularspace, which pulls at the edges of the leaves that are turned back.

I have not intended by the showing in my drawings to prescribe a certainshape or size for my calendar, as obvious modifications are intended byme to be within the scope of my invention, which is not to be limited toany particular shape or number of leaves.

arena Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A calendar comprising a pad of leaves, a metal binding strip adapted toconfine the upper edges of said leaves, cord ends secured in the ends ofsaid bindin a card separate from the pad, a metal bin ing strip on thecard, said binding being of substantially the same length as the padbinding strip, and engaging the cord at the ends so as to leave arectangular space between the card and pad for a folding back of theleaves of said pad through said space.

STEPHEN M. SPRAGE-NS.

